A droll and inventive take on moviemaking, The Jaws Project mixes fact, fantasy and some show biz speculation to make a highly enjoyable comedy. Today, most people remember Jaws as one of th…
With its production of Euripides' The Bacchae: A Ritual Blood Sacrifice, The Phenomenal Animals presents a feminist spin on one of the classic works of Greek theatre. Seven of the cast's eig…
In one of the collections of his theatre lyrics, Stephen Sondheim writes that while most people regard West Side Story as being about "racial prejudice and urban violence," its actual purpos…
It was in the opening moments of The Servant of Two Masters, as one of the performers stood in front of the curtain to introduce the show, that I realized this wasn't your standard 18th c…
Assassins is about people who lived out their dream " but it's not the dream we ordinarily think of as "The American Dream." This audacious musical by Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) and…
At one point on opening night of his latest show, Tony Braithwaite asked if any of his fellow Georgetown University graduates were in the audience. One woman sitting up front announced that …
In many ways, it's startling to learn that Trouble in Mind was first performed in 1955. Alice Childress' play was decades ahead of its time: it's a satire of racial stereotypes in American e…
All dolled up in her fanciest dress, she's smiling and chipper. It's a sunny day, and Winnie is not going to let a little thing like the gigantic mound of dirt she's buried in up to her wais…
There's a song in the Broadway musical Hamilton that asks "Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?" That question is at the heart of Time Is On Our Side, R. Eric Thomas' new play. It's a …
On the surface, Naomi Iizuka's 36 Views is a straightforward story set against the backdrop of the art world. It's about an art dealer with a shady reputation, an art scholar who gets drawn …
It's Christmastime at the Norton house. The three Norton boys " well, they're in their forties, but they sure act like boys most of the time " are spending the holiday with their widowed dad…
Chinquapin, Louisiana, the fictional setting of Steel Magnolias, is one enchanting place. You don't see much of it in Robert Harling's play " the whole show takes place in the town beauty pa…
There are few actresses more familiar, or more beloved, than Susan Sullivan. For four decades she's been a regular, dependable presence on television, most notably in eight seasons as kindhe…
Even if you haven't seen the musical version of Sister Act, you might think you know what it's going to be like. After all, it's a musical based on a familiar hit movie. It's about a bunch o…
Fully Committed, Becky Mode's frenetic 1999 comedy that spoofs the unpleasant underbelly of the restaurant business, is being given a highly enjoyable production at Theatre Horizon in Norris…
When we meet Nick Bright, his life has never looked bleaker. A midlevel Citibank employee, he's been kidnapped in Pakistan by a group of Islamic militants, the followers of a local Imam. Han…
The Great American Trailer Park Musical is a terrific title for a show. When you hear it, you know exactly where it takes place " and you can probably guess what the story and the characters…
Ray is a man living in two worlds. A white, middle-aged financial analyst with a spacious house in an upscale Philadelphia suburb, he spends his free time attending parties, discussing socia…
Ruth Zweigman is not a pleasant person to be around. She's so negative that when she says "I'm in a bad mood," her sister responds, "How can you tell?" After making a typically harsh wisecra…
Inis Nua Theatre Company has made a specialty of performing plays written in, and set in, the British Isles. So it may seem odd that Inis Nua is doing a play about Bradley Manning, the Ameri…
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur is one of Tennessee Williams' lesser-known plays. First staged in 1978, a few decades after his biggest successes, Creve Coeur has echoes of Williams' best-kn…
Back in the eighties and nineties, there was no rock star edgier or more electrifying than Sierra Mist. (No, she's no relation to the soda.) But that was a long time ago. Now it's 2016, and …
The 2016 Oscar Hammerstein Festival, being held this weekend at the Bucks County Playhouse, brings together a wide array of musical theatre artists, scholars, and enthusiasts to explore t…
You'd probably expect a play with a title like Sex with Strangers to be provocative, entertaining and, well, sexy. And Laura Eason's play is all that and then some. It's not a perfect play; …
We all know that the Declaration of Independence is one of the most important documents ever written. But have you ever actually tried to read it? Pretty boring, right? Who would expect such…